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The World in Brief from The Economist
LDP’s disastrous Japanese election; Trump’s crude New York rally, and more
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Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party fared terribly in a snap election called by Ishiba Shigeru, the new prime minister. Also, Donald Trump held a rally at Madison Square Gardens in New York that was criticized for its lewd content.
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